Improvement in fire-place stoves



B. G. BIBB.

Fireplace Fender.

No. 97,027. Patented Nov. 23, 1869.

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, able others skilled in the art to carry it into effect.

BENTLEY (J. 'BIBB, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND Letters Patent No. 97,027, dated November 23, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN FIRE-PLACE STOVES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making pru-t oi the name To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENTLEY G. BIBB, of the city of Baltimore, and State of Maryland, have invented a new and improved Fender for Fire-Place Stoves; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved fender.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the same, applied to a fire-place stove, showing the movablesegment turned up to allow the withdrawal of the ash-pan.

Figure 3 is a top view,

Figure 4 is a front elevation.

Fighre 5 is a vertical central transverse section.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

The object of this invention is to pivot the central section of a fender-rail to two lateral sections of the rail, in such" manner that while the fender is in place in front of the base of a fire-place stove, the movable portion of the rail can be turned up, so as to allow of the withdrawal of the ash-pan item the stove, as will be hereinaitcr,explained.

The following description of my invention will en- In the accompanying drawings- A represents the base of the fender, which is of the shape of a segment of a circle externally, and curved internally, so as to fit snugly against the front wall of the stove-base D, as shown in fig. 2.

From the base A rise perpendicularly fonr'post's, a a, which support two segments, B B, of the fenderguard or rail.

These sections, B B, are thus rigidly and permanently attached to their base.

Between the inner ends of sections B B, a space is left suflicient to allow an ash-pan, E, to be drawn through it, as in the actrof removing or replacing such pan.

O is the third or movable section of the rail, which is made movable by pivoting it to the ends of the fixed sections, as at O 0, so that it can be turned up from a horizontal position, as shown in figs. 2 and 5; a

and, in consequence of its curved form, it will, when in this posit-ion, resting against the base of the stove,

form an arch, beneath which the ash-pan E can be moved out of or into its place.

\Vhen the rail-section 0 is in the position shown in -figs. 1, 3, 4, that is to say, when it is in the horizontal rail is in nowise injured, while a portion of it can be r conveniently turned up out of the way of the ashdrawer, to allow the removal or replacement thereof;

' and while this is the case, it will not be necessary to remove the entire fender for effecting said object.

Having described my invention, What 1 claim as new, is- A vertically-movable pivoted or swinging fenderrail section, 0, substantially as and for the purposes described.

BENTLEY O. BIBB. Witnesses:

WM. H. BAYZAND, M. Jonas. 

